4. The UC Regents postponed a vote to raise tuition next fall following a fierce pushback from students who said that hikes would derail their college dreams, reports Emily DeRuy of the Bay Area News Group$. "The regents had been slated to vote on increasing in-state tuition and fees by nearly $350 for the 2018-19 school year, raising total annual tuition to just shy of $13,000. The proposed increase for out-of-state students was even greater, nearly $1,000 to about $29,000."

5. Bay Area transportation officials voted to place a $3 bridge toll hike measure on the June ballot, reports Erin Baldassari of the East Bay Times$. The measure calls for increasing bridge tolls in $1 increments every few years through 2025 in order to generate billions for transportation projects throughout the region.

6. A businessman seeking a cannabis permit in Oakland offered a city official a trip to Spain, reports Kimberly Veklerov of the San Francisco Chronicle. The businessman, Dorian Gray, defended his offer to Greg Minor, who heads up Oakland's pot permitting program. Minor said he reported the offer to City Administrator Sabrina Landreth. Under city ethics laws, it's illegal for someone to offer a gift "when it is reasonably foreseeable that the public servant or candidate could be influenced by the gift in the performance of an official act."